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Dr Rock: Exploring Lita Ford’s Wicked Wonderland

Dr Rock talks to The Runaways star Lita Ford about living on an island paradise, learning to be a mother and duetting with Ozzy Osbourne

John Robb Interviewed: Underground Resistance – The Return Of The Membranes

The Membranes are back, and John Robb tells us why. Prepare to have your eyeballs seared by the most fervent interviewee of the year. Live pictures courtesy Shot2bits.net

Panic Attacks And Pythagoras: Team Brick Interviewed

Bristol one-man band Matt Williams talks to Ash Dosanjh about hallucinations and the blood of the Greek Gods

Tindersticks

Falling Down A Mountain

Factory Floor Live: Beyond The Industrial Production Line

Luke Turner sees Factory Floor crushing their former contemporaries in East London's post punk poser scenes beneath their post-industrial might

Baiting The Daily Mail: A Prophet Reviewed

Jacques Audiard's crime thriller is "tres bien" according to Jeremy Allen

Charlotte Gainsbourg

IRM

New Young Pony Club’s Ty Bulmer On Greek Mythology

Laura Veirs

July Flame

The Greatest Guitar Riffs In The World (Better Than Sweet Child O’Mine)

Profoundly depressed by a new poll which supposedly “reveals” the nation’s taste in rock riffs, Joel McIver – who is such a guitar geek that he wrote a book last year called The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists – provides 20 far more interesting alternatives

These New Puritans

Hidden

The Odd Couple: Broken Bells Interviewed

Production wizard Danger Mouse and The Shins frontman James Mercer talk to Ben Hewitt about running away from bears, creative exhaustion and their new collaboration Broken Bells

Rhesus AB Positive: A Yeasayer Interview About Odd Blood

Thom A. Ward chows down with Yeasayer to talk about missing drummers, hanging with Beck and a lack of irony. Band portraits by Guy Aroch

The Blockheads On Ian Dury Biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

When looking to ascertain how well the Ian Dury biopic reflects the man's life, who better to quiz, says Zoe Street Howe, than the Blockheads themselves...

Rejects From The Choir: Smoke Fairies Interviewed

Ailbhe Malone talks to Sussex duo Smoke Fairies about how they conjure their ethereal sound

Nick Cave & Warren Ellis

The Road Soundtrack

Tomorrow’s World: Jaz And Youth Play Us The New Killing Joke Album

After meeting up at Paul Raven's funeral the original line-up of Killing Joke decided to record together for the first time since 82. John Doran got the invite round to Youth's house on Xmas Eve to hear the results

Eels

End Times

Hyperreal: Magnetic Fields Arch Duke Stephin Merritt Interviewed

With his hand on the tiller of _Realism_ – the most caustically satisfying Magnetic Fields album since _69 Love Songs_ – New York’s least excitable raconteur has a few (not exclusively self-chosen) words squeezed out of him by Charlie Ivens

The Resistible Demise Of Michael Jackson Review & Exclusive Extract

A satisfying surfeit of intelligent observation, warm, funny and provocative writing, and lack of prurience in this new Zer0 Books tome. 'Shamone' says Jonny Mugwump, our many teeted lizard overlord

A Call To Arms: Delphic Interviewed

Manchester's newest hopes talk unsold albums in HMV and Steve Martin's banjo prowess with Ben Hewitt

Scout Niblett

The Calcination of Scout Niblett

A Metal Albums Column: Heavier Than An Osmium Elephant

Toby Cook casts a frosted and baleful eye over new releases from Lostprophets, Throats, Coalesce, Orphaned Land (pic below) and more

OK Go

Of the Blue Colour of the Sky

Warren Ellis: The Road And The Trials Of The Soundtrack

Warren Ellis talks to Luke Turner about his soundtrack work with Nick Cave, and the pressures and pains of working in the film industry

Mr Agreeable: Your Liquidised Detoxing Liver Is His Pick-Me-Up

Mr Agreeable has his repast disturbed by Florence, Vampire Weekend, Slayer and Lil Wayne. HEAR THE QUAIL EGG SPUTTER!

Forging Black Metal: Cronos Of Venom Talks About The Genesis Of A Genre

Helping create extreme metal as we know it today as well as naming Black Metal, Venom have always been the antidote to musical boredom, says John Doran after talking to frontman Cronos

And So I Watch You From Afar – Acronymically Confusing Noise Rock

Post rock, post metal and a dash of stadium sized bombast? Sign me up says Iain Moffat. Band photo by Graham Smith

Analogue Alienation: The Very Rare Sound Of Wierd Records

The Very Rare sounds of Cold Wave have proved influential on two Wierd Records acts, Xeno & Oaklander and Led Er Est. Louis Pattison investigates

Sonic Router 009: A Dubstep Column For January

New year, new low frequency provision. Oli Marlow speaks to London producer Blue Daisy. Free download . . .

Vampire Weekend

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